03390cam a2200493Ma 4500 ocn505070606 OCoLC 20171018091357.0 m d cr cn||||||||| 040913s2004 ne fob 000 0 eng d 9781849502979 (electronic bk.) : �61.95 ; � 90.95 ; $109.95 1849502978 (electronic bk.) : �61.95 ; � 90.95 ; $109.95 9780762311446 (hbk.) 0762311444 (hbk.) CaPaEBR eng UBY OCLCQ ZJC LB45 .I34 2004 JHMP bicssc JN bicssc EDU000000 bisacsh 39 306.43 22 Identity, agency and social institutions in educational ethnography [electronic resource] / edited by Geoff Troman, Bob Jeffrey, Geoffrey Walford. Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2004. 1 online resource (xv, 227 p.) Studies in educational ethnography, 1529-210X ; v. 10 Includes bibliographical references. The prime focus on the social processes of schooling within educational ethnography has tended to marginalise or eschew the importance of other 'informal' educational sites. Other social institutions, such as family, community, media and popular culture, work and prisons are salient arenas in which behaviours and lives are regulated. They all interrelate and are all implicated in the generation, management and development of social identities and the social and cultural reproduction of structures and relations. Individuals, though, are not merely shaped by these social institutions, their agency is evident in the way they creatively adapt and accommodate to the tensions and constraints of economic, educational and social policies. The maintenance of self in these situations requires identity work involving mediation, conflict, contestation and modes of resistance, which often contribute to a continual reconstruction of situations and contexts. This volume of "Studies in Educational Ethnography" focuses on identity and agency in a variety of social institutions in educational ethnography. The contributors explore these themes in a wide range of international contexts including: Belgium, Sweden, North America, South Africa and England. They demonstrate the capacity of educational ethnography to provide accounts of participants' perspectives and understandings to highlight the agency of educational subjects. Description based on print version record. Educational anthropology Congresses. Identity (Psychology) in adolescence Congresses. Identity (Psychology) in children Congresses. Social institutions Congresses. Physical anthropology & ethnography. bicssc Education. bicssc Education General. bisacsh Electronic books. local Jeffrey, Bob, 1946- Walford, Geoffrey. Print version: Identity, agency and social institutions in educational ethnography. Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier JAI, 2004 0762311444 (OCoLC)56658074 Studies in educational ethnography ; v. 10. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1529-210X/10 SSbacklist 222952 222952